What is the rationale for ensuring a period of listening and speaking practice before teaching reading?

• It exposes learners to high-frequency vocabulary and language patterns

• It prepares students for advanced grammar

• It enhances handwriting abilities

• It helps in developing writing skills

Why is it important to afford many opportunities for learners to listen to and recite rhymes, chants, songs, and simple dialogues?

• It prepares students for advanced grammar

• It strengthens teacher-student relationships

• It reinforces listening, comprehension, and speaking skills

• It helps in developing writing skills

When teachers read aloud to model correct pronunciation and expression, what should students practice?

• Reading comprehension

• Letter formation

• Rhythm and intonation

• Grammar exercises

How should teachers teach grapheme-phoneme correspondences?

• Through inquiry methods

• Implicitly

• Explicitly

• With repetition

Why provide learners with extensive practice in reading words they previously learned orally?

• To develop automatic word recognition

• To enhance speaking skills

• To develop listening skills

• To improve mediation

Communication and reading comprehension are dependent on _______.

• Teacher read-alouds

• Game-based learning

• Chants, songs, and dialogues

• Vocabulary knowledge

What does grapheme-phoneme correspondence mean?

• The relationship between speaking and writing

• The relationship between L1 letters and L2 letters

• The relationship between capital and lower case letters

• The relationship between a unit of sound and its or symbols

What does early (emergent) writing include?

• Mainly drawing

• Use of gibberish

• Invented spelling

• Using a mixture of L1 and L2 letters

Naming and forming letters contributes to _____.

• Reading

• Writing

• Reading and writing

• Keyboard skills

This is a ______.

• Grapheme phoneme correspondence

• Phoneme

• Grapheme

• Vowel